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# fester

«fester» in Mova's judaism dictionary: **To go bad and fill with pus, as an infected wound does** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

verb

### meaning for a pupil

To go bad and fill with pus, as an infected wound does. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/F/fester/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

In the Tanakh and Jewish tradition: In Psalm 38 the wounds stand for the pain of the speaker's sins and foolishness. Interpretation: Tradition reads the psalm as a confession of a person who sees his suffering as the result of his wrongs and who turns to God for healing.

### examples

- My wounds are noisome, they fester, because of my foolishness. (Writings PSA.38.6, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/F/fester/#x1)

### note

A record of the Judaism dictionary, written from the corpus.

### In the corpora

- [My wounds are noisome, they fester, because of my foolishness.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.619/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «fester» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/F/fester/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.